UNEMPLOYMENT has gone over one and a half million according to the official figures. And over half & million school leavers will swell that number eyen further by the end of the Two million unemployed by wiuter is no longer an uneasy estimate buta fact.
The Tory government's cuts will make this situation even worse as local authorities, the civil service, and health authorities are forced to make redundancies and limit jobs.
rete ones are aiming between 150,000 and 200,000 jobs in education alone.
High unemployment enormous danger to the working class, not just those who are out of a job. Traditionally it has been used to push down wages and weaken it by creating a reserve labour.
It splits, divides, and hence further weakens the working class by playing off one section against another.
Even in the labour people seriousiy argue should be taken away from rather than men, blacks rather than wiles, young workers rather older workers with responsibilities.
The whole approach of last in, first out, discriminates against younger workers.
The Tories thrive arguments, playing off one section of the work force against another. trade union leaders who voluntary redundancy and fall into the same trap, and simply help create a situation where more and more young workers cannot find jobs at all.
These divisions must be confronted head on. Positive discrimination in the employment of women, and young people is the way to take up these divisive responses.
We also have to fight for demands